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Enterprise Market Will Spend Trillions on IT in 2012

Computing has become an intrinsic part of society, and there aren't many better way to figure out just how deeply IT is affecting the world than by looking at just how much money will be spent on it in the coming years. Next year, the world will invest a whole lot of money in the sustainment, enhancement and a...

18 October 2011
04:11 GMT

ROLF Infrastructure Goes to the Cloud, HP Helps

Moving to the cloud is happening more and more to existing corporate infrastructures, and one of the latest to start on this road is ROLF, calling on the help of HP. ROLF Group, a Russian importer and retailer of cars, decided it was time to upgrade its technological infrastructure, so it asked HP for help. Th...

27 September 2011
08:49 GMT

More Money Will Go Into IT this Year

Each year, a substantial sum of money is invested into various IT installations, machines and businesses, and Gartner decided to study just how big a rise in expenses is expected for the ongoing year.Gartner is an analyst firm that conducted many studies of the years, so it is not surprising to hear that it has take...

1 July 2011
09:43 GMT

A Link Connects Autism and Technology

IT-rich regions appear to have a much higher incidence of autism that areas where technology has not yet penetrated so deeply. These are the conclusions of a new study by Cambridge University experts, who are the first ever to look for this connection. Before the beginning of the study, the team predicted that autism...

20 June 2011
10:56 GMT

The IT Industry Needs New Technologies

An international collaboration of researchers has just concluded an extensive survey of the IT industry, which shows that it will no longer be able to contribute to global economic growth beyond 2020 unless new energy-efficient technologies are employed. The investigation shows that the limitations which will be impo...

11 October 2010
08:48 GMT

Citrix Survey Finds High iPad Interest Among Businesses

Citrix, a company that closely watches the IT world, has carried out a survey to find out how many businesses are eager to support the iPad. In what is the most striking statistic that has come out of a Citrix-conducted survey, the company claims that 84% of businesses surveyed will support personal iPads. According ...

2 June 2010
09:54 GMT

PHP Still the Most Profitable Way to Earn Money Online

Since our last report on online work based on Elance statistics, a full financial quarter has passed. The result on Elance: $20 million more for freelancers. Boosting over $260 million since its birth, Elance has risen above any other online new-media-related marketplace, hovering around the #550 position in Alexa�...

26 April 2010
10:37 GMT

Economic Downturn Improves IT Employee Loyalty

The economic downturn has been called many things over the past couple of years but there have been very few, if any, situations where the recession was perceived as the cause of a fortuitous phenomenon. Still, it seems that anything is possible after all, now that the economic crisis has been found to have instilled...

26 March 2010
11:19 GMT

iPad Sought by IT Experts After All

Last month, Softpedia posted a report debating whether or not to believe the results of an analysis saying that Apple’s iPad was totally inappropriate for IT. Actually, we downright dismissed the idea, but we left a door open for commenters to express their own opinion on the subject. As it turns out, IT busine...

25 March 2010
07:25 GMT

Apple iPad Considered Totally Inappropriate for IT - Opinion

Freelance writer Rob McGarvey has posted what he calls the “10 Reasons to Nix the iPad in Your IT Strategy.” Seemingly a good read at first glance, the report is pretty off on some of the aspects surrounding Apple’s yet-unreleased iPad. The ever-sarcastic MacDailyNews calls McGarvey an “IT doo...

18 March 2010
12:09 GMT

Online Freelancing More Profitable than Ever

Working from home, on your own terms, with no boss and no break schedule has become in recent years a real alternative to holding a regular job. With increased rates and earning possibilities, coupled with new marketplaces to find work on, the number of self-employed people has grown in recent years. The U.S. Departm...

19 February 2010
10:24 GMT

Microsoft: Information Technology, a Key Enabler of Green Innovations

Software and information technology systems will be critical catalysts for green innovations, John Vassallo, microsoft vice president, EU Affairs, opined. After speaking at the European Union’s Green Week conference in Brussels, Vassallo pointed out that solutions designed to solve environmental issues had to r...

30 June 2009
05:44 GMT

Global Crunch Offers Opportunity for IT Innovation

Microsoft indicated that US IT professionals were lagging behind their counterparts in UK, Japan and Germany when it comes down to the budgets they allocate to fueling innovation. This is the conclusion of a study commissioned by the Redmond-based company to Harris Interactive, with over half of those surveyed agreei...

24 June 2009
06:43 GMT

Web 2.0 Is Not Seen as a Threat by Enterprises Anymore

Many companies believe that the use of web 2.0 applications leads to a lower quality of work, because employees tend to forget about their daily tasks and rather concentrate on instant messaging or on updating their profiles on social networks. A recent study from Forrester proves that the outlook has changed. "Our r...

14 July 2008
06:04 GMT

Common Criteria Tools 10.5 Released

Apple has released Common Criteria Tools 10.5. The tools are targeted mainly towards governmental institutions. Common Criteria Tools is the standard set of security tools designed to provide a reliable evaluation of the security capabilities of IT products. Using it, customers gain confidence in the security of IT p...

25 April 2008
06:02 GMT

Sybase iAnywhere Brings Secure Enterprise Email to the iPhone

With every developer out there rushing to port its goods to the iPhone, why would Sybase iAnywhere sit with its arms crossed? The company has announced support for Apple's iPhone, through its Information Anywhere Suite, offering a secure delivery of Lotus Domino and Microsoft Exchange enterprise email to IT orga...

18 March 2008
11:40 GMT

Semiconductor Industry Boosts 5 Percent in October

The perpetual hunt for a personal computer has excellent effects not only amongst the hardware retailers, but go down the 'food chain' to the silicon wizards. Recent financial reports show that October has been a prolific month for the semiconductor manufacturing industry. The holiday season has unleashed p...

4 December 2007
04:24 GMT

FIFA Signed India's Satyam for 7 Years

You might have heard of FIFA, short for Fédération Internationale de Football Association. It deals with… football. Or soccer, as some know it - the team sport where there are eleven players on the pitch on each side and the ball is only kicked with the foot by all, except the one dressed differently from each team and...

26 November 2007
04:54 GMT

IT Department - A Place for Insomniacs!

I guess that many of you are aware of the fact that keeping a firm secure is not an easy thing to do. Some people aren't even able to keep their own home computers safe, need I say more about huge networks? And in case you were thinking that an IT manager's work for the day ends when he leaves the office, t...

1 October 2007
05:11 GMT

Anti-Spam Costs Companies 140 Million Pounds

Spam filters are pretty good to have, especially if you're a large company, receiving a lot of messages daily. Thing is, these filters don't always function the way they should and sometimes dub legitimate e-mails as spam. Companies cannot afford losing business because of a program that fails to sort out m...

24 September 2007
09:35 GMT

IT Risk = Business Risk

Today, the web is one of the best places for business. Also, most business transactions are done with computers. Not everyone has got the hang of cyber-security yet, but it's very important that they try. We have evolved a lot and things are not done in the old fashion way, but just think about it - when employi...

20 September 2007
05:31 GMT

Security Taken to Another Level in Colleges

I guess that you don't have to be a real news fan to have heard of the shootings that took place at colleges in the United States and in some other countries as well. This has become a real threat in the past two years, consequently something needed to be done to put a stop to such issues - and here's wher...

29 August 2007
06:28 GMT

Security Breach? Not My Fault! (Say IT Managers)

"It's the employees' fault that we have security problems!" said a lot of IT managers in a research by Websense, concerning small and midsize companies. Yeah, it's their fault, I'm sure all of them have as much knowledge as IT managers do, and they do risky stuff on purpose!(not!). If there's...

24 August 2007
10:57 GMT

HP Scores Yet Another Big Contract

After the announcement of the signed contract with the United States Air Force, HP is ready to take on another big and lucrative business opportunity, a contract with the company Maritz. According to a HP press release concerning this event, the computer manufacturing company is going to supply Maritz with a wide ran...

22 August 2007
12:08 GMT

The Fujitsu and Reuters Partnership

Companies worldwide are changing their technological base, including their computer platform, every few years in order to make the most of the new innovations and reduce costs, as better hardware is used for increased efficiency. One of the companies that decided that it was time to replace its aging computer hardwar...

17 August 2007
10:35 GMT

More Money into The IT Equipment Purchases

According to IDC's U.S. IT Spending forecast, more and more service providers and corporates spend a significant part of their IT budget on networking equipment. The report said that on the service-provider side spending is aimed at implementing new services based on "IPTV, fiber-based broadband access, next-gen...

9 July 2007
12:23 GMT


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